McDonald’s Unveils Fresh 'Hot off the Grill' Beef

In an announcement on Tuesday, McDonald's said that it has added fresh Quarter Pounder beef patties in around 3,500 domestic restaurants to date, and plans to get fresh beef in 14,000 U.S. locations by mid-Spring.

Unfortunately, McDonald's locations in Alaska and Hawaii are not currently scheduled to receive fresh beef burgers, but CNBC does not report if McDonald's restaurants in those states will never be included.

In early January, it was reported that McDonald's was testing out "fresh, never-frozen beef patties" in several restaurant's around Tulsa, Oklahoma.

At the time, it was merely an experiment, but McDonald's had tried it once before, back in 1996, as noted by Today. They launched the Arch Deluxe burger, which featured never-frozen beef, but quickly discovered that, while it wasn't a total failure, it wasn't a complete success either.

McDonald's may be trying to become a more all-encompassing-competitor with chain's like Wendy's, who have had a "fresh, never-frozen beef patties" business model for awhile, since their current model is already a contender against similar models like Burger King's.